The Widow's Walk

Sarah Lane was nineteen when Wes Carter got her drunk at a college party and got her pregnant. She miscarried before the wedding, and married him anyway, because by then Eleanor Carter had already paid her parents enough money and written enough careful language into a settlement agreement to make sure the story that survived was never quite the true one. Sarah spent eight years married to the fine print of her own cover-up, learning exactly how little she belonged in the family that had bought